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Families, time and money in Canada, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States

Burton, Peter S.; Phipps, Shelley A. - 2009

Using microdata from the Luxembourg Income Study, we assess 'time crunch' for families with children in Canada, Germany, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S. Both theory and empirical evidence suggest that both time and money are important inputs to the well-being of parents and children. We present...

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Cross-national comparison of economic inequality among households with children

Shirahase, Sawako (contributor) - 2007

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Family structure, female employment, and national income inequality : a cross-national study of 16 Western countries

Kollmeyer, Christopher - 2012

This study assesses whether recent changes in family structure and female employment patterns have altered the distribution of income in some countries. Extant literature on this topic reaches inconsistent conclusions and overwhelmingly focuses on the United States. To address these...

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Structural racism, family structure, and black-white inequality in poverty : the differential impact of the legacy of slavery among single mother & married parent households

Baker, Regina S.; O'Connell, Heather A. - 2022

Objective: To assess whether an indicator of structural racism - the legacy of slavery - impacts racial inequality in poverty among individuals within the same family structure. Background: Family structure is a dominant explanation for racial inequality in poverty. This overemphasis on an...

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Delay in marriage and income inequality in Japan : the impact of the increased number of unmarried adults living with their parents on the household economy

Shirahase, Sawako - 2009

The continuous decline in the fertility rate has been witnessed since 1980 in Japan. Japan’s total fertility rate in … relation to the household, we will examine the economic disparities of unmarried adults living with their parents in Japan in ….K., U.S., and Taiwan, compared with Japan. The paper consists of two parts. First, I will examine economic disparities among …

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The impact of household capital income on income inequality: A factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - 2008

SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …

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Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - 2014

Has there been an increase in positive assortative mating? Does assortative mating contribute to household income inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In...

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Labor Market Assimilation and the Self- Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...

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Between-group Competition in the Labor Market and the Rising Returns to Skill: US and France 1964-2000

Wasmer, Etienne - 2001

This paper describes the changes in the composition of the labor force in the last 35 years and quantifies the substitution of low education / high experience workers by low experience / high education workers by using US and French microdata. The consequences of this substitution on the wage...

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Time to eat: household production under increasing income inequality

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2006

Eating requires the food materials that make up meals and also time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the U.S. for 1985 and 2003, I examine how income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into...

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